Best Books for Beginning Readers

To encourage a child to start reading, you need books with short, simple words, and preferably with lots of repetition and rhyming. Here are a few easy readers for the youngest kids.

If you have kids who are beginning readers, from kindergarten to second grade, you'll want to buy or borrow enticing books that will keep your kids reading over the summer. Here are lots to choose from. When you choose, remember to consider your child's interest and reading level.

After years of diligently reading those bedtime stories, now your kid can read to you! Celebrate this huge accomplishment with these fabulous finds that will help improve your early reader's skills and spark his imagination, too.

I love watching children learning to read, finding books that make them laugh and want to read more. Our section of "Early Readers" has been growing and growing. As I look back on the end of the year, I'd like to highlight the top circulating "Early Reader" books in our collection.

Finding books with engaging content for brand new readers is tough. If you regularly read high-quality picture books aloud to your child, she can easily become frustrated with the simple storylines in easy readers that she reads herself. But practice makes perfect, so it is important to press on and encourage your child to [...]